Leeming has written a lot over the past few years about housing market renewal - the demolition of supposedly run-down areas or northern England - for a range of newspapers and magazines. Recently this source of commissions has begun to run dry. As she writes:

It's true, both the editorial indifference, and the shrinking editorial budgets. So when the papers and magazines stopped taking her pitches, Leeming was faced with a choice: stop writing the demolition story or do it herself. She chose the latter.

A year ago Leeming, who is clearly a dab hand with a camera, taught herself to produce audio clips and embarked on a self-funded mission to try "in a fuller way" to document the stories she had written of people caught up in the battles over urban demolition across the north of England.

The result is a labour of love: a hugely impressive multi-media documentary in words, pictures and sound, which she curated beautifully on her Street Fighters blog "before running out of money and time".

On it you can hear her interviews with residents who are campaigning against plans which will see their homes bulldozered; see some fantastic photographs of the threatened communities (see these shots of Seedley South, in Salford, for example); and delve into a chronological archive of her articles (latterly published mainly in the Big Issue in the North).

All in all it forms a powerful online document which traces the development of the housing market renewal policy over the past few years and its human consequences. The demolition story, however, isn't over, even if her money has run out. As Leeming writes:

One thing I can't help wondering when I visit these urban wastelands – many of which have been largely tinned-up for five years plus now – is what the future holds.

As the cuts in public funding provide a further twist to the story of urban demolition, Leeming's Street Fighter blog - a living, vibrant, open-ended piece of reportage - to me looks like potentially one of the very best ways of covering it. One problem: Leeming says she can't afford to continue.

Until recently, it could be argued, her project was at least part funded, in ad hoc fashion, by her work for newspapers and magazines. But traditional media commissioning, with its decimated budgets, can't easily help: so how could we fund it?

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